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Trenton, New Jersey, 15,459 students in 25 schools

Trenton City School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Trenton, measured against Trenton's own big snow morning of 3.9 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Trenton close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Trenton.
The Trenton playbook

How Trenton calls a snow day

How families hear

By phone call, text message, email, the district website and social media.

“Information will be posted to the district’s website, Twitter, and Facebook pages.”
How We Communicate

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“2 Hour Delay: 10:45 a.m. - 3:15 p.m.”
Delay schedule

2 built in snow days

On the 2026 to 2027 calendar, listed as “built-in emergency days”.

“If the district does not use the built-in emergency days, TPS will be closed on Feb 15 and May 28.”
Source

Remote learning days

Trenton has remote learning days in its winter plan.

“Should the district close for three consecutive days, the district will begin remote instruction to satisfy the 180-day requirement”
Source

Making up a lost day

Emergency Closing Days #1 and #2 are Feb. 15 and May 28, which become school days if needed; a third day may extend the year to June 24.

“If the district does not use the built-in emergency days, TPS will be closed on Feb 15 and May 28. If a third day is needed the district may extend the school year to June 24.”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day September 8, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • Last day June 23, 2027
District calendar

Recent snow days

  • 2025 to 2026. Several snow closures; one snow day made up by extending the year to June 25, 2026.
    “As a result of multiple days of the district closing due to snow, Trenton Public Schools will need to adjust the 2025–26 school calendar to ensure the district meets New Jersey’s required number of instructional days.”
    District notice

Read from Trenton’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is trentonk12.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Trenton’s snow record

19.4inches of snow a winter
1.7school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.8with 4 in or more
3.9 ina big snow morning in Trenton: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0.5Nov
3Dec
5.9Jan
6.8Feb
3.1Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 9.2 in on January 25, 2026
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 42.6 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.3 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 3.3 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 3 miles away. Mornings are the 7 am snow reading on a weekday from December 1 through March 31, over the ten winters from 2016 to 2017 through 2025 to 2026, from NOAA GHCN Daily.

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The New Jersey rule

How New Jersey counts a lost day

New Jersey requires at least 180 days of school, or the district loses state aid.

The New Jersey rules in the agency’s own words, and every New Jersey district

Next door

Districts near Trenton

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Lawrence Township School DistrictLawrenceville19.4 in0.8
Ewing Township School DistrictEwing19.4 in0.8
Hamilton Township School DistrictHamilton19.2 in1.33
Hopewell Valley Regional School DistrictPennington20 in0.9
Robbinsville Township School DistrictRobbinsville19.2 in1.3
West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School DistrictWest Windsor19.2 in1.3
The schools

25 schools

Every school in Trenton follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Trenton Central High School - Main Campus
  • Daylight/Twilight High School

Middle

  • Grace A Dunn Middle School
  • Hedgepeth Williams Intermediate School
  • Dr. Martin Luther King Middle School
  • Ulysses S. Grant School
  • Clara Parker Intermediate School
  • Joyce Kilmer Intermediate School
  • Battle Monument Intermediate School
  • Arthur J. Holland Middle School
  • Thomas Jefferson Intermediate School

Elementary

  • Patton J. Hill Elementary School
  • Carroll Robbins Elementary School
  • Luis Munoz-Rivera Elementary School
  • Franklin Elementary School
  • Paul S. Robeson Elementary School
  • Gershom Mott Elementary School
  • Joseph Stokes Elementary School
  • Darlene C. McKnight Elementary
  • Dr. Crosby Copeland Jr Elementary
  • George Washington Elementary School
  • Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School
  • William Harrison Elementary School
  • Cadwalader Elementary School

Other schools

  • Trenton Central High School-9th Grade Academy
Questions

Trenton snow day questions

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A residential street under deep snow on a bright blue morning, cars parked along the curb buried into smooth white mounds, one set of tire tracks down the middle
The morning after a big one: cars buried to the mirrors and one set of tracks down the middle. A street like this is a closing, no debate. Photo, Fairfax, Virginia, January 2016: Jarek Tuszyński, CC BY 4.0

The odds are a forecast read, and the superintendent makes the call: the district’s own announcement is the one to follow.